Running Knoppix on a centurion guard WinXP machine

[garyng]

Q: How can I write data on NTFS partitions?
A: Don't even think of it. You can read NTFS, but writing will cause data loss.

this Q.A. was from http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqUsing

One cannot write freely to a NTFS partition, but can use NTFS as a storage media. The trick is, create a large file(either dd on FAT and transfer it to NTFS while running window or may be download cygwin and run its win32 based dd) then loop mount this file. Writing to NTFS is not safe if it touches the directory structure etc but is usable(I believe there is one linux distribution does it) if one just 'modify' an existing file without changing its length, which is what the loop mount is about.